Live from BlackHat 2025 in Las Vegas, cybersecurity host Jackie McGuire sits down with Seemant Sehgal, founder of BreachLock, to unpack one of the most pressing challenges facing SOC teams today: alert fatigue—and its even more dangerous cousin, vulnerability fatigue.
In this must-watch conversation, Seemant reveals how his groundbreaking approach, Adversarial Exposure Validation (AEV), flips the script on traditional defense-heavy security strategies. Instead of drowning in 10,000+ “critical” alerts, AEV pinpoints what actually matters—using Generative AI to map realistic attack paths, visualize kill chains, and identify the exact vulnerabilities that put an organization’s crown jewels at risk.
From his days leading cybersecurity at a major global bank to pioneering near real-time CVE validation, Seemant shares insights on scaling offensive security, improving executive buy-in, and balancing automation with human expertise. Whether you’re a CISO, SOC analyst, red teamer, or security enthusiast, this interview delivers actionable strategies to fight fatigue, prioritize risks, and protect high-value assets.
Key topics covered: The truth about alert fatigue & why it’s crippling SOC efficiency How AI-driven offensive security changes the game Visualizing kill chains to drive faster remediation Why fixing “what matters” beats fixing “everything” The future of AI trust, transparency, and control in cybersecurity
Watch now to discover how BreachLock is redefining offensive security for the AI era.
Segment Resources: https://www.breachlock.com/products/adversarial-exposure-validation/
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- 0:00 - Live from BlackHat 2025 in Las Vegas
- 0:24 - Introducing Seemant Sehgal, Founder of BreachLock
- 0:50 - The SOC’s Silent Killer: Alert Fatigue Explained
- 01:50 - From Banking Cybersecurity to Offensive Security Innovation
- 02:51 - Adversarial Exposure Validation: How It Works
- 05:03 - Visualizing Kill Chains to Prioritize Real Risks
- 06:41 - Executive Buy-In: Turning Cyber Risk into Business Risk
- 08:43 - Automation vs Human Expertise in Offensive Security
- 10:37 - Who BreachLock Helps: From Fortune 500 to Critical Infrastructure
- 12:33 - AI Transparency, Control, and the Future of Cybersecurity
Seemant Sehgal founded BreachLock with two things: 20+ years of experience in the cybersecurity industry and a dream to create a solution that would make proactive security the new standard.
As the former Head of Cybersecurity at ING Bank, who held a multi-million-dollar cybersecurity budget, he dealt with the pain of traditional pentesting approaches falling short of what modern businesses today need for a strong security posture. A go-getter by nature, Seemant was motivated to solve these challenges, and went on to create the world’s first full-stack, human-led, AI-powered Penetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS) solution with a strong company culture that has helped BreachLock gain momentum and scale rapidly.
Today, BreachLock is a global leader in offensive security, offering attack surface management, penetration testing, red teaming, and adversarial exposure validation (AEV) services within one unified platform.
